Love at 16
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love at 16 |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Herrmann Zschoche |
| script | Herrmann Zschoche Gisela Steineckert Rainer Simon Ulrich Plenzdorf |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Berlin" |
| music |
Ulrich Gumpert Peter Gotthardt |
| camera | Günter Jaeuthe |
| cut | Christa Helwig |
| occupation | |
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Love at 16 is a German youth film of the DEFA of Herrmann Zschoche from the year 1974th
action
16-year-old Ina takes dance lessons at her mother's insistence. The 18-year-old Matti also takes part in the lessons. He falls in love with Ina, who initially rejects him. At the instigation of the dance teacher, both become a dance couple during the exercises and soon get closer to each other outside of the lessons. Parents have mixed feelings about their children's relationships. Ina's mother is strictly against a relationship because Ina is too young for it in her eyes. She fears that Ina could become pregnant, whereupon child care would end up with her, the mother. She forbids Ina to bring Matti home with her. Ina's father doesn't want to tell the daughter anything, goes for a walk with Ina and Matti and realizes that the relationship is still "harmless". Matti's mother has no concerns and is happy for him, but struggles with sex education for the son. Matti promises to ask her for advice if anything is unclear. Matti's father, on the other hand, is against the relationship because he believes the son is neglecting his social obligations, having already been absent from GST classes several times .
Ina and Matti feel misunderstood and secretly cultivate their relationship. They go swimming in a lake and Matti teaches Ina to swim. At first it remains with kisses. Ina wants to spend the holidays secretly with Matti, whereby they want to work out part of the holiday pay at an LPG . However, her parents forbid her to travel, so Matti drives with friends and promptly flirts with a girl on the LPG. Back at home, he organizes a remote boathouse for himself and Ina so that both of them have somewhere to stay in the autumn. In the hut they sleep together for the first time. Ina is sobered, especially as she soon believes she is pregnant, which turns out to be a fallacy. There are arguments between Ina and Matti, but also reconciliations. At the end there is the prom. Ina and Matti take part as a dance couple and their parents are now getting to know each other. While Ina and Matti are more reluctant, the parents enjoy each other's partner and are already planning the relationship between the two - what kind of daughter-in-law Ina would be, how the couple could later find an apartment together and whether they will both have children. Matti realizes that he could live without all of that, including the ball.
production
The shooting took place in Schwerin , among other places . Love at the age of 16 had its premiere on June 29, 1974 on the Neubrandenburg open-air stage and was shown in GDR cinemas on July 12, 1974. On February 24, 1976 it was shown for the first time on DFF 1 on television and ran on March 13, 1976 on the first for the first time in Germany.
After for love nor too lean? it was the second film in which Simone von Zglinicki took the lead role. Heinz-Peter Linse, who played Matti, was an amateur actor and later worked as a unit manager at DEFA. In the role of Matti, H.-P. Lens spoken by the Berlin voice actor Bernd Lehmann, because the actor's voice did not fit the character. The sequence in which Ina meets the tennis coach (Willi Schrade) at the summer camp was cut from the original film, and he is flirting with Ina.
The title out of breath , which is sung by Veronika Fischer in the film, was written by Ulrich Gumpert and Peter Gotthardt .
criticism
Contemporary critics saw the film as differentiated:
“Everything that concerns Ina and Matti is staged with great care. Simone von Zglinicki and high school student Heinz-Peter Linse portray the creation of relationships with an intensity that young actors rarely manage in front of the camera. This is undoubtedly a credit to the director. This is where their strength lies. Here was also an opportunity to deepen the conflicts predicted by the book. But this opportunity was not used. Rather, the director Herrmann Zschoche seems to have seen a way of realization in bringing the material to the screen as cheerfully as possible. "
“The likeable film was staged in a draw,” stated Frank-Burkhard Habel .
Other critics praised the film as a "'small" but no less important film ... from Babelsberg, [which] is basically characterized by the harmonious attitudes and actions of the characters, by scenes and situations in which the aura of our present day Can be felt every day. "
"Although the treatment of social problems was rather superficial, the film paints a comparatively real picture of the situation in the GDR," said the film service .
For Cinema , Love at 16 was “a likeable little film about growing up and first love, refreshingly free from clichés and with many small insights into everyday life in the 1970s GDR. Conclusion: A small highlight from 'real socialism'. "
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 360-361 .
Web links
- Love with 16 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love at 16 at filmportal.de
- Love at 16 with the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margit Voss: From the first great love . In: Film und Fernsehen , No. 11, 1974, pp. 33–35.
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 360 .
- ↑ Karla Anders: Twice "Love" . In: Filmspiegel , No. 17, 1974, p. 9.
- ^ Love at 16. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de